HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM IN CHINA: AN ASSESSMENT OF RECENT TRENDS

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (01) ◽  
pp. 5-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
ǺKE BLOMQVIST ◽  
JIWEI QIAN
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Mixed Model ◽  
Central Government ◽  
The State ◽  
System Reform ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Care System

In this paper, we first briefly review the changes that the Chinese health care system has undergone since the early 1980s. We then describe the major current health policy initiatives in urban and rural areas and discuss likely scenarios for their evolution over time. Using comparisons with international experience regarding different institutional arrangements in the health care sector, we also discuss whether the approaches taken in China are likely to strengthen the health care system in terms of efficiency and equity. Our conclusion is that in order to predict how effectively China's future health care system will perform in the future, one must have more information about what role the state (central government) will play, as regulator, partial funder and direct provider in the system. We believe that the best strategy at present is to allow the development of a mixed model with significant roles for both the state and the private sector, in both the supply of health care services and the provision of health insurance.

scholarly journals Health care financing in the Russian Federation

2007 ◽  
pp. 245-261
Author(s):  
Zdravko Solak
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Health Care Financing ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
System Reform ◽  
Russian Scientific ◽  
Mandatory Health Insurance ◽  
Care System

The problem of financing health care, which is otherwise typical for many countries in the world, has been combined with other problems that accompany the social transformation process in former socialist countries. Within the fifteen years, the Russian health care system has been constantly suffering from difficulties such as insufficient financing, emphasized territorial differences in availability of health care services, aggravated supply with medicines etc. Deterioration of the health status of the population reflects in the on shortening of life. Experiences in the implementation of the health care system reform is of an exceptional significance having in mind that methods of financing have been innovated in that country by the introduction of mandatory health insurance in 1993. Currently, one can find diversity of ideas and proposals in the Russian scientific periodicals that refer to resolving of existing, serious difficulties in the health care system as well as to the future of the Russian health care system.

Health System in Poland

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
Daniel Ślęzak ◽  
Przemysław Żuratyński ◽  
Klaudiusz Nadolny ◽  
Marlena Robakowska ◽  
Alicja Kalis
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
National Health ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Right To Health Care ◽  
Health Fund ◽  
National Health Fund ◽  
Care System

Health care systems face challenges related to the technological advances in medicine, demographic changes and limited opportunities for growth funding for health, necessitating greater involvement in the search for more efficient systems. The authors present the functioning of the Polish health care system based on social, historical outline of the healthcare system in Poland and the functioning of the National Health Fund (NFZ). Poland has undergone many reforms of the health care system, the Bismarck model, the model Siemaszko, and finally to a model of universal health insurance. So everyone has the same right to health care services financed by the NFZ or directly from the state budget (eg. The system of state emergency medical services). The National Health Fund allows anyone insured to free healthcare and reimbursement of medicines. Introduced information about information programs.

Economic development trends and aspects of healthcare reform in Russia under COVID-2019 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-513
Author(s):  
Natalya Krivenko
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Health Financing ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
State Of The Economy ◽  
Care System

The article is aimed at studying the state of the Russian economy and health care system before and after the COVID-2019 pandemic, identifying the main trends in the economy and health care, regardless of the pandemic, as well as its impact on the socioeconomic development of the country. The interrelation and mutual influence of the levels of development of the economy and health care of the country is noted. An analysis of the state of the economy and health care system in Russia for 2017–2019 is presented, problems and achievements in the pre-pandemic period are identified. The COVID-2019 pandemic is considered not only from the point of view of a medical manifestation but as a powerful trigger that provoked large-scale socioeconomic changes in the world, as a bifurcation point in world development, requiring states to objectively assess the state of the economy and healthcare, revise the current coordinate system, getting out of the state of uncertainty and choosing promising areas of socioeconomic development. A cross-country analysis of the response of various health systems to the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the advantages of countries with centralized management, health financing, and subordinate sanitary and epidemiological services. Along with the achievements of Russia in the fight against COVID-19, the existing specific problems of the domestic health care system are noted, which negatively affected the preparedness for a pandemic. Analyzed the consequences of the COVID-2019 pandemic for the socio-economic state of countries at the global level. The change in socio-economic indicators in Russia in 2020 compared to 2019 is presented as a result of the consequences of the COVID-2019 pandemic. The main results of the study are to identify the main trends in the development of the economy and the healthcare system in Russia in the context of the ongoing COVID-2019 pandemic, defining the directions of reforming the national healthcare, trajectories of increasing the level of socioeconomic development of the country

On teaching surgery to seconded doctors

1934 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
V. L. Bogolyubov
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
The State ◽  
October Revolution ◽  
General State ◽  
State Health ◽  
National Scale ◽  
Systematic Improvement ◽  
Care System

The question of the systematic improvement of doctors on a national scale arose only after the October Revolution and the transfer of the health care system into the hands of the state. The October Revolution, which brought with it the system of state health care, raised the acute and very real question of creating a cadre of doctors to carry out the tasks of Soviet health care. Thus, the training of doctors in our Soviet Union in general and their training in particular is directly dependent on the tasks of Soviet health care, which are inseparably linked in their turn to the realization of various general state tasks at a given point in time.

Washington Review: Health Care System Reform

1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-50
Author(s):  
Barney Sellers ◽  
Edward Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
System Reform ◽  
Care System
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